[aerogear-dev] UnifiedPush: Sending notifications from the AdminUI

[Apostolos Emmanouilidis]

+1 

Sending notifications from the AdminUI will make UPS attractive to users
which are not developers and don't have technical knowledge (business
users, CRM departments etc)  

On Sun, 2014-02-23 at 13:04 +0100, Matthias Wessendorf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> over the weekend I spoke w/ a friend: His company is doing some mobile
> (iOS/Android) apps which also support receiving push notifications.
> 
> 
> Two examples he told me. After receiving push notification:
> 
> 
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> * One of their apps basically fetches the latest version of a CSV
> file, stored on a public HTTP Server.
> 
> 
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> * Another app is used to tell sales guys new brochure files (PDF) are
> available on a protected resource of a webserver (which they _can_
> than download from w/in the app, if the like to)
> 
> 
> The company build a simple console (PHP) which allows them to send new
> push messages, when ever their customers want to.
> 
> 
> 
> I showed them our UnifiedPush Server and its usage via our AeroDoc
> example (iOS / backend). They really liked the UnifiedPush Server.
> Especially that it does store all the device metadata. 
> 
> 
> But since a lot of their mobile apps don't have a backend requirement,
> they would still have to use their own console (which than connects to
> UPS)  for submitting all the push messages they want.
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> This brings me to [AGPUSH-38] and I really think we should implement
> that feature. Not only for sending test messages! If our UnifiedPush
> Server allows its users to simple send push messages to all of their
> mobile apps, it would make the server even more attractive.
> 
> 
> I regret a bit that I was against [AGPUSH-38] in the beginning, I
> guess that's due to my Java enterprise background, where you typically
> find complex setups, and server talk to servers :-(
> 
> 
> Anyways, now I really think that the UPS has to have such a 'send
> push' facility inside of the Admin UI :-) I believe that we could
> reach way more potential users with something like that
> 
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
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> 
> Greetings,
> Matthias 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> [AGPUSH-38] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGPUSH-38
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> 
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> 
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